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Issue. Food and Hunger. What Where Why How So what. What. Famine When hunger persists for a longer period, covering a large no. of population and resulting in mass malnutrition and starvation, it then becomes famine. Where. Map of World Hunger
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Issue Food and Hunger
What • Where • Why • How • So what
What • Famine • When hunger persists for a longer period, covering a large no. of population and resulting in mass malnutrition and starvation, it then becomes famine.
Where Map of World Hunger Proportion of undernourished people 1998-2000
Why • Physical factors • Human factors
Why • Physical factors • 1. rugged relief 2. infertile soil 3. extreme climate 4. natural hazards
Why • Human factors • 1. Poverty • 2. Poor governance • 3. Wars • 4. Diseases
Why 1. Poverty
Why 2 + 3. Poor governance and wars Source: FAO
Why 4. Diseases In 2002, around 5 million more people were infected with HIV/AIDS, most of them living in low-income, food-deficit countries.
How • International aids • 1. short-term • 2. long-term
How 1. Short-term • Emergency food aids • Temperary medicial support • E.g. Medecins Sans Frontieres • Temporary military support • E.g. UN Peacekeepers
How 2. Long-term • Grant & loans Research and development
So what • Partially effective • Famine is still prevailing • 2015 : 580 million would suffer from undernourishment
Value Global citizens Justice Peace